Discover the connection between
Sunday morning and weekday life.
Align your small group studies to bring the message home.
The key to life change is focus.
Imagine the life change that could come from aligning your weekend messages with small group studies. We have combined six Rick Warren sermon series with six video-based small group studies by leading authors to help you focus your congregation on these life issues:
- Focus on purpose with Rick Warren
- Focus on marriage with Gary Smalley
- Focus on a lifestyle of worship with Buddy Owens
- Focus on finances with Rick Warren, Chip Ingram, and Ron Blue
- Focus on your unique S.H.A.P.E. for life with Erik Rees
- Focus on Christian worldview with Rick Warren and Chuck Colson
When people focus on God’s purpose for their lives, they will see and live differently. Sharpen that focus and increase the impact of your preaching by taking it a step deeper with a small group study that literally brings the message home.
 
The 40 Days of Purpose Sermons
An 8-week Sermon Series by Rick Warren
Teach your congregation how to lay a foundation of values for life, how God has shaped them for service, and the importance of committing their lives to God. Members discover their life mission and help them organize their time and find the tools to complete their God-given mission.
The Purpose Driven Life Book
Read the book that shook the world. Take your whole congregation through the life-changing 40-day journey of reading The Purpose Driven Life together. The personal daily practice of reading the book, in conjunction with powerful messages and application discussions, will help make the message more impacting.
The Purpose Driven Life Study
Based on the bestselling book, The Purpose Driven Life, this unique small group edition will help your congregation discover who they are, why they were created, and how to fulfill God’s purpose for their lives. Groups will journey together down the pathway to purpose as they hear Pastor Rick Warren teach six weekly small group sessions on video.
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In this sermon collection, Pastor Rick looks at complete honesty in a marriage, what goes wrong in a marriage, and how to do a marriage makeover. The final messages in the series are to be taught to the men and women separately. Kay Warren teaches the women of the congregation how to understand their husband’s deepest needs while Rick teaches the men how to understand their wife's deepest needs. I Promise: How 5 Commitments Determine the Destiny of Your Marriage
Small Group Study
Hardback Book
Based on five years of research by renowned relationship experts, Drs. Greg and Gary Smalley, this unique marriage study teaches couples how to experience freedom to be open about their feelings without fear of being criticized, blamed or judged.
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When you feel like you’re overwhelmed you have two choices: you can worship through the problem or worry. Pastor Rick’s goal in this series is to help us understand that worship is a lifestyle. He takes the 26 letters of the alphabet to teach us the antidote to worry which is worship.
 The Way of a Worshiper
Discover the secret of friendship with God.
This small group study is not about music. It's not even about going to church. It's about living your life as an offering of worship to God. It's about tapping into the source of power to live the Christian life. And it's about discovering the secret to friendship with God.
Small Group Study
In these four video sessions, Buddy Owens of Saddleback Church helps you unpack the meaning of worship. Through his very practical, engaging, and at times surprising insights, Buddy shares truths from Scripture and from life that will help you understand in a new and deeper way just what it means to be a worshiper.
Hardback Book
The hardback book, which accompanies the small group study, is perfect for personal devotional time.
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This special collection of sermons is designed to complement the small group study, "Managing Our Finances God’s Way." The topics in this series include God’s provision, materialism, prioritizing your use of money, giving, debt, investing, and enjoyment of your blessings. Taught by Pastor Rick Warren and the Saddleback Teaching Pastors, this sermon collection makes an ideal Focus Series for your church when accompanied by the small group study. Consider this series before launching a fundraising campaign to prepare the hearts of your congregants.
Managing Our Finances God’s Way
Small Group Study
One out of every six verses in Matthew, Mark, and Luke and nearly half of Jesus’ parables focus on material possessions. Yet, Christians continue to struggle daily with mismanaged funds and misplaced notions of how to handle money God’s way. Led by five of the nation’s most respected Christian financial and pastoral leaders, this 7-week, video-based small group study offers a comprehensive look at biblical financial management. If you are considering a fundraising campaign, use this series to get your congregation’s finances in line first.
You Are Shaped for Significance
A 6-week Sermon Series by Rick Warren
Pastor Rick looks at how our S.H.A.P.E. affects our relationships, career, finances, retirement, recreation, hobbies, and enjoyment. This series seeks to communicate that we matter to God and we are shaped by him for a purpose.
S.H.A.P.E.: Finding and Fulfilling Your Unique Purpose in Life
Small Group Study
Hardback Book (English or Spanish)
Empower your members into ministry by helping them discover their God-given S.H.A.P.E., or Spiritual gifts, Heart, Abilities, Personality and Experiences. This small group study will reveal how God has designed each person in your church and will help them see how that design fits the intention for which they were created.
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In a world of confusing diverse cultures, religions, and choices, deliver truth and clarity to your congregation. Pastor Rick preached this series in conjunction with the introduction of his curriculum collaboration with Chuck Colson, "Wide Angle: Framing Your Worldview."
 Wide Angle: Framing Your Worldview
Small Group Study
Your worldview impacts virtually every decision you make in life: moral, relational, and financial—everything. In this brand new study, Rick Warren and Chuck Colson discuss such key issues as absolute truth, moral relativism, tolerance, terrorism, creationism vs. Darwinism, sin and suffering.
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The Good Life
Softcover Book
In this new must-read book, The Good Life, Charles Colson shares the life stories of everyone from CEOs to heads of national agencies to philosophers and lesser-know prisoners. This special Purpose Driven edition compliments the small group study, Wide Angle: Framing Your Worldview.
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